Chapter 1: The Decaying Empire
Cities are the product of human industrial development, and a large number of people have gradually abandoned the primary industry dominated by agriculture and began to develop into the secondary and tertiary industries. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThe surplus raw materials located in the countryside are transported to the city, where they are transformed into industrial products, and the rich industrial products flow back to the countryside, forming a perfect cycle......
But what if the city only absorbs the resources of the countryside and does not export them? The city has changed from the heart of the country to a leech lying on the state, constantly weakening the country.
The subtropical climate is very good, the blue sky is extraordinarily high, and the sun is very dazzling in the distance. The wind kept running over the edge of the trees on the side, setting off waves of leaves.
But the man in the picture really can't enjoy the scenery in front of him......
"Judging from the research data, the physical fitness of humans in this world is about 5 times that of humans in our world...... After a series of exercises, you can jump up to a height of about 4 meters...... And a punch of about 220 kilograms......" Lunas thought of stopping the record, "I fought off three waves of thieves along the way, an evolutionary beast...... As a result, we get money, food and water from the local area......"
"Even humans have been forced to evolve...... Thinking of this, Lunas not only sighed, no matter what, the people in this world are finally much more reliable, at least humans are firmly at the top of the food chain. Although some evolutionary beasts are dangerous, there will always be stronger humans who will kill or even train them, but generally speaking, there are more of the former, after all, the latter is more uncomfortable for many arrogant beasts than killing them......
In exchange for the right to hitchhike to the imperial capital, the gold content of gold coins in this world is not high, but the value of a gold coin represents a lot, a poor gold coin with little gold content, or even a gold coin that does not contain gold at all, only brass, is enough for a family of five to eat for three to four days.
"The empire is already in the twilight of its twilight years......"
This is a situation known to every sane people of the Empire.
Although embezzlement, corruption, violence, crime...... Such things happen every day even in a normal country, but more often for empires.
It's not that people don't want to change everything, and the revolutionary army in the south is a good example......
Defeat the corrupt Imperial government, kill the evil ministers, and establish a new ...... Of course, the last point is the most important, no matter how nice the slogans are, it cannot hide the fact that they are a group of anti-thieves......
But this simple slogan, in the deformed state of the Empire, unexpectedly has a large number of supporters among the common people, and the masses are like this, they will not understand the big truth, but you just have to tell them that if you defeat someone or something, everything will be fine, and they will support you......
But the imagination is very plump, and the reality is very skinny. The empire is huge, and this behemoth has a power that is completely incomparable to the surrounding alien races, so even such an empire can easily suppress those who have been preparing to move all along......
Of course, the strength of the strong is not without a price, for those in high positions of power, if they want to obtain more powerful combat power, they only need to use their mouths to increase taxes, which is not worth mentioning at all, and no matter how much the tax is raised, it will not be counted on them. The only downside of this is that it will increase the burden on ordinary civilians, causing more and more civilians to turn to the revolutionary army......
No matter how you look at it, it's an endless loop. The collapse of the empire, the behemoth that covers the sky in this era, is only a matter of time......
This is all the information that Lunas gets from the merchants, just like a taxi driver is always willing to chat with passengers, and the long and boring journey also becomes an advantage for Lunas to obtain information.
As merchants, they don't have the same admiration for the Revolutionary Army as civilians in their words, which may also have something to do with the fact that Lunas is still a stranger. Instead, the teasing of the childish ideas of the common people that they would be able to live a good life by overthrowing the imperial government? No kidding, if you only look at the combat effectiveness and threat level, there is no way to compare the revolutionary army with those alien races, what is the revolutionary army? It is just a mess, and those aliens are highly disciplined militarized groups with the same hatred and purpose, and the hatred between the aliens and the empire is unstoppable, and even if the revolutionary army comes to power, it will immediately fall into the quagmire of war. They have seen too much use and betrayal, and they know very well the reality that the revolutionary army will be more ruthless and their life will be worse, so they don't like the revolutionary army very much, but they are worried about the recent tax increase.
"I'll be in the imperial capital in another day...... "The merchant wiped his sweat and said, "It's really depressing...... If it weren't for business, I would never have come here, and I will never come here in the future......"
Listening to the businessman's chatter, Lunas just smiled and didn't speak, and secretly scolded in his heart that as long as this profiteer had enough profits, this money-hungry guy would definitely be the first to rush over.
Unfortunately, the merchant's luck seemed to have run out at last, and an explosion came from the ground, and a strangely shaped beast emerged from the ground.
"Class 1 Dangerous Species! Earth Dragon! The merchant exclaimed, fortunately, he was also experienced, and immediately pacified the horses under his seat and began to prepare to retreat in an orderly manner, and the goods of Tai Po were immediately abandoned, this time as long as the safety of the personnel could be guaranteed to the greatest extent, this loss was nothing, after all, these things that could be sold at a good price in the imperial capital were actually not valuable things in the countryside......
Ps: I caught a cold again today, or I had a relapse, and after taking the medicine, I found out that there were sleeping pills in the medicine, and I fell asleep less than half an hour after eating...... It's a little late today, I hope you will continue to vote for food recommendations and reward local tyrants......